Re: [Banshee-List] The artist-centric nature of Banshee (particularly the grid view)

["Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

On 01/09/13 16:35, mhelvens wrote:
> Hi all!

Hi!


> <snip>
> Additionally, if the Artist tag is empty, it will
> not display the album art (which is embedded in the files AND a .jpg file in
> the same directory).

I proposed a patch in bug 692107 [1], which I think would fix this bug 
too. Do you mind testing it? (If you don't know how to compile banshee, 
subscribe yourself to the bug and ask me for a testing DLL, and I will 
provide it.)



> I guess I would classify the album-art thing as a bug. But it seems more
> like a symptom of the overall design mindset. Banshee should have
> multi-artist album support, but this support feels more like an
> after-thought.

Banshee is highly configurable to many different use cases of diverse 
users. I think that it wouldn't be difficult to adjust some things to 
cover yours as well (but it would require some coding knowledge I'm 
afraid).

> I guess I don't have a specific question, but just wanted to start a
> discussion about this. What are your observations / opinions on this issue?
> Might this aspect of Banshee change in the future? (Would you perhaps
> recommend me an alternative application?)

Firstly I would start talking about metadata: it's not that Banshee is 
artist-centric but music tags are, I think. For example: is there any 
way to specify more than one artist in a ID3 tag of an MP3? If there's a 
bleeding edge version of ID3 which allows this, then I guess it is the 
time to get the ball rolling.


[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692107